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March 8, 1938.A M. MOORE STORAGE GARAGE Filed Feb. 9, 19:57

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-50 The building shown consists of an arrangefor single parking and maybe deemed single 50 Patented Mar. 8, 1938 l UNITED- sTATEs PATENT OFFICESTORAGE GARAGE Montague Moore, Burnaby, British olumbia,

Canada v.lpplicatioiri February 9, 1937, Serial No. 124,833

6 Claims. (Cl. 20-1.13)

My invention relates to'improvements. in storincreasing the number ofcolumns of superimage garages, which are particularly adapted for posedramps required to serve the several floors. short time parking of cars.It is assumed. for purpose of description that The objects of theinvention are toprovide a the plans shown in Figures 1` and 2 are setwith 5 garage structure where all aisles and rampshave that portionadjacent the top of the sheet as sufficient head room for trucks andhigh ve being the north. hicles; to provide a` ramp system whereby allThe building consists of a receiving floor I and vehicles after leavingthe receiving floor travel upper fiOOIS 2,- 3; 4, 5, 5, '7, 3 and 9, 0fWhich 3, inthe same direction, both ongoing up to their 5, 'l and 9, arefull oors and 2, 43,' 5. and 8 are parking stall and in travellingtherefrom back to intermediate floors. The building is bounded by l0 thereceiving floor or exit. Further objects, are a north wall I0, a southWall II, an east wall to provide a garage whereby different areas are i2and a west wall. I3. given different classification, such for instanceas In a building .having eight floors, such as red, yellow, blue andgreen and cars to be parked shown, eight vertical columns of ramps areproare assigned to any of the colour areas and that vided. which arenumbered respectively' MA, 15 a ear assigned to any colour area inpassing rto l41?, MC, 14D, IllE, MF,- IJG and MH, each of or from itsstall cannot travel on any ramp or WliiCll COllSiStS 0f a, plurality 0fupzramps l5l and aisle occupied by a car assigned to anothercoldOWnlramDS le 310mg Which all traffic flows in our area A furtherobject is toprovlde .means the same direction, viz: .upto the left anddown where'relatively little double parking is resorted t0 the right,the travel being always t0 the east 20 toto maken economical use of theoor Space. along the SOuth End Of and t0 the The invention consistsessentially of a garage Weet along the north eiidOf the building. Sincehaving superimposed floors separated by intervthere are eight upper110018 iIlCluling` the full mediate floors of lesser area and a,plurality Of and the vintermediate oors, there will be, four sets oframps in which each set serves separate up rampe 5 leading frein thereceiving iOOr I 25 floor areasfrom the areas served by any other tothefloors. above and there will also be four of the sets of ramps. aswill be more fully de down ramps I6 leading from the floors above toscribed in the following sp-ecication and shown the recelvmg 0rin theaccompanying drawings, in Which V .Each of the full iloors 3, 5, 'I and9 `arepro- Fig. I is a plan View of the main ofrecen/ing vided withoutside connecting traic aisles II-E y30 floor of the building and I'IW,a centre connecting traiiic aisle I8 and Fig 2 is aplan View of theuppermost floor intermediate connecting traffic aisles I-9E and Figs. 3,4, 5 and 6 are prole views each showing a separate ramp system and thefloorareas J served by said ramp system. The proles are projectedcharts. taken along the lines A-fB B-A of Figures 1 and 2.

Fig. 'I is a sectional view taken on the line 'I-- The intermediate oors2, 4, G and 8. consist of two areas defined by the letters E and Wfollowing the numeral allotted to the respective floors, such as theintermediate iloor 2v would consist of areas 2E and 2W. The intermediatefloor areas` are each provided .with a single con- 40 necting traiiicaisle 20, see Figures 3, 4, 5, 6 and 40 I? the drawmgs hke Characters ofrefelence 7, which aisles are immediately above or below" mdlcateCorrespondmg' Parts' m'each figure' one of the intermediate aisles ISEor I9W.

For the purpose of description the use of C01' The floor areas on thefull. oors between the ours or thermdex letters such as red of Re blue.walls I2 and I3 and the outer aisles VIE and er B, YellOW 0I' Y andgreen DI* G Willbe made ITW respectively represent single parking spaces45 m reference to ramps, aisles and-,Damme Zones 2l, and the areasbetween adjacent aisles coninorder that the `direction of travel of`vehicles smute parklng Spacesz; which are the length throughthebuildine will be more readily Yimderof two' cars each, but since theyare each aestood. cessible from both ends .theyv too may be used ment ofalternate floors referred to as full oors parking: spaces. andintermediate floors, all of which are above Theiioor areas ontheintermediate floors 2, the main or receiving oor, though it will be4, 6 and 8 are each. of two car. length and thereobvious that a similararrangement of floors may fore constitute double parking `spaces whichare be provided below the receiving floor without indicated'. by thenumeral. 23".' 55

The several parking areas will be divided and will be hereinafterreferred to by colour such as red, blue, yellow and green and will beindicated on the drawings by the index letter of the respective colourssuch as R, B, Y and G.

Cars enter and leave the building from the receiving floor I and aretagged with a tag of the colour corresponding to one of the areas inwhich they are to be parked. If. a rush develops cars maybe temporarilyleft on the receivingk iioor until the Aattendants have time to runthemto their respective stalls.

Each profile view is taken as a line extending in the direction oftravel ofthe cars in moving from the receiving floor up to any lfloorserved by the particular starting upra-mp and from the assigned parkingspace down again to the y lreceiving floor. The up ramps are lshown infull line and the down ramps in dotted line. The left.

half of the profile view represents the'rarnp profile of the south halfof the building and the right-.half of prole view represents the rampproiile of the north half of the building, so that the horizontal lengthof a prole view represents aA complete contourV of .a ramp system of thebuilding.

It will be noticed that 'the up ramps in the ramp columns at one end, towit, the south are inside or towards the centre of the building and theup ramps on the other end or north are out- In parking a car assigned toa red area, the

car will leave the receiving iioor at the inside up ramp I5 in the rampcolumn I4A and will proceed to any of the areas, indicated by heavyhorizontal line in Figure 3 or any of the floors 2, 3, 4, k5 and 9,Where it `may turn in and`v park, for instance it may turn left at thetop of the rst ramp onto intermediate floor 2W and pass along its aisle20 to its stall. On leaving it would back out of its stall and continuealong the aisle 20 towards the north end of the building and turn leftagain onto the down ramp` I6, shown in dotted line in Figure 3, which isin the ramp column I4H. This down ramp is inside and can only beoccupied by Red cars from upper Red areas. *Another Red car may proceedupwards from the receiving iioor, along the up ramp I5 in column I4A toa single parkingfstrip on both sides of the centre aisle I8 of iloor 3,if on the other hand a. car is assigned to the iloor 9 it would continueupwards Aalong the up rampsof ramp columns IIIA, HIB,

I4C and I4D to the east side of the building, thence along the aisle IIEof oor 5, thence up on the same up ramps of ramp columns ME, MF, MG andMH and would land on floor 9 at the aisle IIW from whence it would bedriven to its stall. This carrin descending would runv onto down rampsI6 incolumn MA and would pass progressively downwards on the outsidedown ramps through columns MA to IIIH fromwhich it would land on thereceiving oor facing west. u Cars assigned to blue areas leavethereceiving floor on the up ramp I5 of column I4G and reach their rstparkin'garea onaisle ITW of floor 3, see Figure 4, the descent from thisarea is from 2,110,305 fii 'Ll ,Y

the south end'of aisle I9W reaching the receiv-v ing floor on down rampI6 of column IIB. Alternately the blue cars may proceed upwards to anyof iloors 4, 5, 6 and 1 and return from any of these iloors on ramps setaside entirely for blue cars, all cars as before travelling inthe samedirection and without any interference from cars assigned to any othercolour. In Figure 4 showing the floor areas assigned to blue it will benoticed that the ramps do not extend upwards beyond floor 1 but theramps could, if desired, be carried beyond this point to'provide forrerouting of cars from the blue areas to another ramp series in theevent of Ian accidental traiilc block on any'of the ramps of the blueramp y system.`

Figure 5 shows the travel. and parking areas assigned to "green. Thecars in this case start to rise from the receivingvfloor I in thenortheast portion of` the building on ramp I5 of the ramp column I4E andreach their ilrstv parking on aisle I1W offloor 5 from whence upwardtravel continues to intermediate roor 6W, iloor T, intermediate floor 8Eand the eastern portion of floor 9. In descending, green cars reach thereceiving iloor in rampcolumn I4D. l ,Y

Figure 6 showsthe travel of cars assignedto yellow. The cars leave thereceiving floorat the` ramp column AI4C and may enter intermediate floor2E at the aisle 20 or may enter oori, iloor l', the intermediate iioor8W and iioor 9 at the centre aisle I8. v Cars assigned to yellow wouldin descending reach the receiving oor in ramp column HF. f i H Thebuilding would be provided with suitable entrance` and exit openings 24to the receiving floor I. f v

On certain iloors where double parking is -provided, two .or more stallsmay be set asidekfor aisles4 as at 25, so asgto alford passage way fromone colour areato anothervinA case of.. trame breakdown or to convertotherwisevdouble parking spaces into single parking spaces. It `will beobvious that cars could be rerouted overQother floors in case ofaccident on any ramp, if neces,- sary, but that so long as they pass toor from the areas to which they are assigned, as shown `in the profilesshown in Figures 3, 4, 5 and 6, 'that no car of one colour denominationcan pass a car of another colour denomination onany ramp or aisle. i

What I claim as my invention is:

1. A storage building having a receiving -iloor and superimposed oorsdesignated alternately full floors and intermediate floors, each of saidintermediate floors being divided into two areas of lesser total areathan the adjacent fullV floors, a plurality of up ramps extendingupwards to communicate with the superimposed floors and a. plurality ofcorresponding down ramps connecting the superimposed floors with thereceiving floor, each of said ramps being arranged toserve one only oithe dividedr two areas of the intermediatefloors the'last mentioned upand downk communicate with the superimposed iioors and a plurality ofcorresponding down ramps connecting the superimposed floors with thereceiving oor, each of said ramps being arranged to serve one only ofthe divided tWoareas of the intermediate floors the last mentioned upand I down ramp to each divided iloor area being in immediate contactwith said area whereby a car passing from said up ramp onto the dividedfloor area and running onto the down ramp will not intersect any line oframp traffic, the headroom height of all of said ramps beingsubstantially equal to the headroom height between adjacent full floors.

3. A storage building having a receiving floor, superimposed iloorsdesignated as full oors and intermediate iioors, each of saidintermediate oors being divided longitudinally of the building into twoareas', said building having ramp connecting traiiic aisles in the samegeneral direction as the line of the line of division of theintermediate floors, a plurality of up ramps and corresponding downramps arranged in side by side relation and extending transversely ofthe line of division of the intermediate floors and at opposite ends ofthe traic aisles, the up ramps at one end of said aisles being towardsthe centre of the building with the down ramps towards the outside ofthe building and the up ramps at the other ends of the aisles beingtowards the outside of the building and the adjacent down ramps beingbetween said up ramps and the centre of the building.

4. A storage building having a. receiving floor, superimposed floorsdesignated as full floors and intermediate floors, each of saidintermediate iioors being divided longitudinally of the building intotwo areas, said building having ramp connecting tra'ic aisles in thesame general direction as the line of the line of division of theintermediate floors, a plurality of up ramps and corresponding downramps arranged in side by side relation and extending transversely ofthe line of division of the intermediate oors and at opposite ends ofthe traffic aisles, the up ramps at one end of said aisles being towardsthe centre of the building with the down ramps towards the outside ofthe building and the up ramps at the other ends of the aisles beingtowards the outside of the building and the adjacent down ramps beingbetween said up ramps and the centre of the building, each of the saidtraffic aisles having connection at one end with an up ramp and at theother end with a correspending down ramp some of said up ramps andcorresponding down ramps serving some of the divided areas of theintermediate iioors and having no communication With other similardivided areas.

5. A storage building having a receiving floor and superimposed iloors,two pairs of ramps connecting adjacent iioors and being spaced onopposite sides of an intervening storage area, each pair of rampsincluding an up ramp and a down ramp arranged that travel up and down isin the same longitudinal direction, the up ramp of one pair beingcontiguous to an intervening storage area of a iioor and the down rampof the other pair being contiguous to the same intervening storage area,the down ramp of the first mentioned pair and the up ramp of the secondmentioned pair being remote from the intervening storage area.

6. A storage building having a receiving floor and superimposed oors,comprising full floors and intermediate iloors divided into spacedareas, said superimposed floors being encompassed by pairs of up anddown ramps connected by trac aisles, each of said divided intermediatefloors being served at one end by an up ramp of one of the ramp pairsand at the other end with a down ramp of another ramp pair, said lastmentioned up ramp and down ramp being in immediate contact with theintervening storage area whereby a car entering the storage area fromsaid up ramp and running onto said down. ramp does not intersect anyline of ramp traic.

MONTAGUE MOORE.

